Q.My girlfriend is having a problem with her Samsung Galaxy W. The battery is constantly dying. We even went to the point of buying a new, higher capacity battery for it but it's still dying within a few hours. In the course of three hours it will go from 100% battery down to 20%. Anybody have any ideas about what's going on and how to improve battery life?

A. In addition to what BethyMac said, the biggest battery killer for smartphones is the display. If you look at the battery status tool under Settings, you'll see the bar graph for the display is the lingers of all.

If she's indoors, she needs to keep the screen level lower. Most screens look fine at 50% or less indoors. Outdoors is different, since it's harder to see. There are widgets on the Play Store that you can install (for free, in many cases) that will allow her to toggle the brightness of the screen. Also, in Settings -> Display, she can adjust the brightness and turn on automatic brightness, which will allow the phone to adjust the screen based on the surrounding light.

She should also condition her battery from time to time. Lithium ion batteries have a chip in them that needs to be refreshed on occasion. Run the phone until the battery goes low enough so the phone shuts itself off. The attach the charger and let the phone charge for one hour after the charge indicator says it's full. You might want to have her do this two or three times initially, then once every two weeks after. That should help recondition the battery.

Q.I am running a samsung galaxy s3 with ver 4. Seems like i am barely using my phone and the brand new batter and phone are at 60% by 5pm. The only thing I can think of is to stop downloading any new apps, since they are all running in the background. For example, Facebook app is running, police scanner app alert, camera360 alert, etc.I went to properties and unchecked the NOTIFICATIONS, but they still keep popping up as running in the background even when i keep stopping them.Any suggestions what i can do? Other than not installing any new apps. I keep having to go to MENU and then doing an END ALL for all my apps but doesnt seem to help much.I dont even open the Facebook app up, and it says its using 30MB just by some mediaupload, but all notifications are turned off, and i set it NOT to refresh.

Any ideas?

A. I have the same issue so what I do is set my brightness level at the lowest level because the higher the brightness the faster your battery will drain. Then download a task manager kill application where you can close all of them at once - but sometimes it doesn't close it completely so every time you use an app make surey you exit properly and not just hit the home button because that means the app will continue running in the background. Also, if you are still having issues with closing and app and turning off any notifications, go to the applications widget manager, hold it down and drag it to app info, then click "force stop." Then review your settings from there to turn off notifications and go into your profile to turn off any notifications setting (like Facebook). The biggest drainer is your push notifications so you need to turn that off along with the brightness level of the screen.

Lastly, don't install widgets because they also drain your battery. You can actually go into your phone to see what is using up your battery the most and then try resolving your top battery drainers and see how it goes after that.

Do I have to use my new sealed battery that came with it right away? Or can I keep it for years to come and when my old battery dies use it?

The new battery won't get ruined if not used right away, correct?

A. Samsung Galaxy S3 battery life

That bigger screen and quad-core processor need a lot more juice and so the bigger bulk is no doubt down to the bigger battery inside the S3 - it's an 2100mAh pack. Due to this, Samsung has also introduced another technology, called Smart Stay - it senses when you're not looking at your phone and dims the display. Clever stuff.With today's battery technology you don't really have to keep it in the fridge. A cool dry place is fine. Also fully charge it once in while. You can also alternate useage.

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